Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] the [adj] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | The aim is to provide a link between the various places where Scotland 's future is discussed . |
| 2 | Such laboratories were not meant to be public places , and the requirements of furnaces and sand-baths and enormous wet-batteries all pointed to the basement as the best place , although without good artificial light the hours of usefulness of basement laboratories was limited . |
| 3 | Hove was elegant , Brighton racy , and Kemp Town struggling , but there was something louche about the whole place . |
| 4 | I know that such experiences are often said to be the result of the individuals concerned having read a book or article or seen a film or television programme about the particular place and then having forgotten that they have done so . |
| 5 | Appreciation of the vital place which the Church had in Medieval life is necessary to an understanding of the buildings which we have inherited from this time . |
| 6 | The property had been part of the countess ' lands , and when Risley asked the king 's advice on the matter Edward warned him off : ‘ Risley , meddle not ye with the buying of the said place , for though the title of [ it ] be good in my brother of Gloucester 's hands or in another man 's hands of like might , it will be dangerous to thee to buy it and also to keep it and defend it . ’ |
| 7 | The property had been part of the countess ' lands , and when Risley asked the king 's advice on the matter Edward warned him off : ‘ Risley , meddle not ye with the buying of the said place , for though the title of [ it ] be good in my brother of Gloucester 's hands or in another man 's hands of like might , it will be dangerous to thee to buy it and also to keep it and defend it . ’ |
| 8 | As a result of the central place of class in Marxist theory , as soon as Marxists argue that primitive societies are without class they are left with very little to say about these societies which is in any way distinctive . |
| 9 | The state and private education : a study of the Assisted Places Policy |
| 10 | ‘ Well , I will adventure , ’ said the little tailor , ‘ though I have great fear of the dark places under the earth , where there is no light of day and what is above is dense and heavy . ’ |
| 11 | I share a birthplace with my hon. Friend , and I also share his concern about the future of the assisted places scheme . |
| 12 | The head of Britain 's oldest school will meet education secretary Kenneth Clarke and his Labour shadow Jack Straw next week to discuss the future of the assisted places scheme . |
| 13 | He said the Government was funding the association in the first place to the tune of £3.76m this year . |
| 14 | The correct dosage for your fish can only be supplied if you know the gallonage of your pond in the first place . |
| 15 | Why did saving collapse in the first place ? |
| 16 | Everyone , it seemed , was doing well out of the erosion of the 1878 settlement except the Russians , for whom that settlement had been a defeat in the first place . |
| 17 | Not only does such an arrangement disrupt the child 's schooling — although arguably it has already been badly disrupted by the child 's absenteeism — but it can often also be a traumatic experience for the child , entrenching the resentment and disaffection which were among the major causes of the child 's truancy in the first place . |
| 18 | These feelings — homesickness for a place you could n't wait to leave ( Manchester ) , nostalgia for a time that was never any good in the first place ( adolescence ) — were why the music of the Smiths refracted the quandaries of the eighties like no other . |
| 19 | Venables added : ‘ It is unfair that the stigma of being a cheat was attached to Gordon and to our club in the first place , especially when you consider some of the play-acting that goes on abroad . ’ |
| 20 | Mountbatten , as Chief of Defence Staff , welcomed the idea , if he did not actually sow it in the Prime Minister 's mind in the first place . |
| 21 | He dreamed the actual execution , including his head being separated from his body , and then abruptly woke up to find that his bed headboard had fallen and struck him on the back of the neck in the same place as the guillotine in the dream . |
| 22 | Rough weather fell when the platform called the sisters ‘ back to the fold ’ , stirring protest that women had never left any mythical fold in the first place , and if anyone needed to find their way home , it sure was n't the sisters ! |
| 23 | Pluto ( since discovered to be a ‘ double planet ’ ) is far too small to create the perturbations in Neptune 's orbit that started off the search in the first place . |
| 24 | Why call a search in the first place ? ’ |
| 25 | In the 1970s the police were often concerned with the need to keep apart two rival groups , each of which had gathered together for a demonstration in the same place and at the same time . |
| 26 | over round the left hand side in the first place , but she must have been in the wrong so they must have seen it as well , they have n't really got a strong case so they threw it out of court and last week he had a letter , he opened it , from the , from the court , and he thought oh gawld here we go again , he 's got jury service , oh |
| 27 | ' — another thing : what the fuck was he doing on the roof in the first place ? ’ |
| 28 | The curious thing is why a university made Mr Jeffries head of an academic department in the first place . |
| 29 | Mr. McAllion : The Minister said that there will be only one form of financial assistance per company , in the form of the £48,750 to help people to put together a bid in the first place . |
| 30 | Police believe the thief was the ‘ kitchen chemist ’ in Morgan hill whose ‘ heroin ’ sparked off the research in the first place . |